Your grampa at least had a choice in the matter. The given names Adolf, Adolph, Adolphe, Adolphus, Ādolfs, Adolfo used to be very popular in a variety of languages -including among Jews - until 1933, when it became a political statement to name your son that.

If you’re a completist, you’ll then have to read High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Movie: The Book, watch High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Movie: The Animated Series, and purchase High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Movie: The Flamethrower. That’s where the real money…

I was dressed as the digit 1 for a few days back when... let’s just say I kept a running tally of how much cash there was in my wallet. I don’t recall what the suit was meant to promote, but I do remember how terrifying a horde of ecstatic children can be.

I’m not sure what you get less, the distinction between putting up the money to make a film and celebrating a film that’s already out there, or the distinction between the superhero-saturated Hollywood and foreign film industries.

No. You’re quoting the words of the judge who cleared him in the 2nd case. Gaye’s family accused Pharrell of admitting he stole the song, and therefore perjuring himself in the first case when he obviously claimed the opposite. The judge, ruling against them, points out that his words could be reasonably interpreted…

Given the fact that the word is a borrowing from Czech, any mainstream pronunciation other than the original one (where each o sounds like the ou in thought) is both made up and inherently correct for its period.

1. I fucking hate that they’re remaking this.

I can’t exactly sit back and not star something Tuva-related, can I?

Dear Penthouse, Today I Learned...

Doubt it, I think Netflix was still in the DVD rental business back in 1748.

“Pilot Script?” I don’t know about that.

Great, just great. Now I’m never gonna sell my pilot script about a yodeling clitoris.

Did he make an HBO Max series out of it, though?

For me it’s somewhat like David Lynch’s Dune: gorgeous to look, groan-inducing when I try to follow the plot, marred by questionable gender politics and a bad performance by an actor in a key role, more boring than it has any right to be. Though overall, Blade Runner is a better film than Dune, partly because it…

“I mean shit, why not bring them all back?” (Robert Downey Jr.’s disembodied voice)

What’s an Uzi Vert? Why is a little one better than a big one, if indeed that’s the case? Is there such a thing as an Uzi Noir or an Uzi Rouge?

You could’ve replaced the last half of the text with “We don’t know what this is about.” That would’ve conveyed the exact same amount of information and saved you a typo.

The vague resemblance is more with Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker than with Heath Ledger’s. But I suppose the former may be an uncomfortable topic to bring up on account of all the mass shootings that film failed to inspire.

And even though I also starred the original comment, I would dispute that “relative stability.” If you restrict the period to 1648-1911 (from the end of the 30 Years’ War to the start of the Balkan Wars) but look at Europe in its entirety, the southeastern quarter (the greater Balkans, the Caucasus and the steppe…

Look how they pronounced a sentence on his boy!